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Taking Ownership of Our Waterways

EatGreenDFW iPhone Reporter 6/27 5:00A Bernice Butler

Rivers and lakes are vital features of our natural landscape, providing us with drinking water, recreation and natural beauty. Yet byproducts from our age of convenience such as excessive trash...

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Black Churches, Powerful Cultural Forces, Set Their Sites on Food Security

Civil Eats 7/8 11:00P Leilani Clark

On a warm weekend in early May, Reverend Heber Brown of Pleasant Hope Baptist Church in Baltimore led a delegation of his members on a tour of Browntown Farms in Warfield,...

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SNAP is a Boon to Urban and Rural Economies. Proposed Farm Bill Changes Could Cripple Them.

Civil Eats 7/4 11:00P Sarah Reinhardt

In case you missed it, Congress is in the midst of a pretty major food fight . At the center of it is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which is the first line of defense against...

Local Food Grown by Immigrants is Connecting this Seattle Suburb

Civil Eats 7/3 8:00P Lornet Turnbull

A group of immigrant farmers is bringing life back to a campus of dormant greenhouses south of Seattle, growing a variety of vegetables seldom found in American supermarkets. Inside one of eight...

Dara Cooper Is Reclaiming Black Foodways

Civil Eats 7/2 11:00P Korsha Wilson

“Definitions are important because whoever gets to define a problem gets to define its solution,” says Dara Cooper, activist, organizer, writer, and co-founder of the National Black Food and Justice...

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